You can schedule downtimes for BSM Services and BSM Components from the Monitoring > BSM Summary pages.

## For a Business Service

By scheduling downtime against a Business Service, you are a scheduling downtime for **all** the Hosts and their Service Checks within ALL the Components within the Business Service. Notifications will not be sent out if failures occur during the set time period.

In Monitoring > BSM > Summary, locate the Business Service for which you wish to schedule a downtime, click on the contextual menu for the given Business Service and select 'Schedule Downtime'.

From the Grid View:

From the List View:

You can set a downtime on all the Service Checks of the Service by their state (i.e. DOWNTIME on only CRITICAL Service Checks). The Manual selection section allows applying a downtime on specific Hosts, Service Checks and Statuses.

## Scheduling Downtime Against a Component

By scheduling downtime against a Component, you are scheduling a downtime for **all** the Service Checks within the Component. Notifications will not be sent out if failures occur during the set time period.

In Monitoring > BSM > Summary, go to the 'Investigate' page for a given Business Service and then for the Component for which you wish to schedule a downtime, click on the tile of the Component and select 'Schedule Downtime'.

You can set a downtime on all the Service Checks of the Component by their state (i.e. DOWNTIME on only CRITICAL Service Checks). The Manual selection section allows applying a downtime on specific Hosts, Service Checks and Statuses.